Milestones in sanitation
1888 Tokyo Municipal Improvement Commission set up; this came about after the cholera epidemics of 1879 and 1886 in which over 100,000 people suffered got the disease. 1889 A report filed by
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Lessons of yore
Ancient traditions hold the key to sustainable management of natural resources
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Diluting black rain
Positively charged atoms of elements like calcium and magnesium that are present in particulate matter can neutralise acid rain
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Sullied cities
An entire gamut of environmental disturbances accost most Asian cities
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Temples of irrigation and land management
From the 9th century to the 16th century, south Indian kingdoms did not have irrigation or public works departments. Temples were given the job of constructing and managing irrigation channels, which they devotee endowments.
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Colonial perceptions of hunger
Perceptions of famines are as important for historians to study as the famines themselves, says a British historian. The British created famines in India. But the vision of starving people only reinforced their belief in their superiority and right
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For all that is green
Standing today at the threshhold of a doom 04t can happen actually in a split second in the form of a nuclear holocaust or a germ warfare, the efforts at salvaging the environment should ideally be people oriented
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Will the Aral Sea ever come back?
"Forgive us, Aral. Please come back." These words written in chalk, on a ship sftKk in a sandy wasteland, which was once the bustling shore of the world"s fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea, tell a graphic tale of the human toll caused by am of the w
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Rape of the rock
The heavenly idyll of a carefree people, happy to welcome tourists, gay in their carnival, peaceloving and gastronomic, is being devastated due to the avarice of miners
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Filthy lucre
US's Democrats and Republicans break common bread over the fairness, or otherwise, of the Regulatory Reform Bill that could make industry accountable for the phenomenal fouling of America
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Nuclear nemesis
Russian scientists confess to dumping atomic waste near major rivers to hide their Cold War sins
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The new urban dream
Sweden is successfully moving towards self-sustaining cities where long-term ecological gains rank higher than short-term economics.
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DISTRESS SIGNALS
New diseases are emerging with changes in the environment, some old diseases are also staging a comeback
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The earth may shake, but life goes on
The fragile ecology of the Garhwal Himalaya witnessed another season of cloudbursts, landslides and flash floods made worse by the 1991 earthquake in the Bhagirathi valley. Down To Earth compiled a firsthand report of life in the unstable Himalayan ran
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High court grants round one to railways
A high court order in favour of the Konkan railway corporation has provoked much anger and resentment among those who oppose the controversial project
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Damp growth
Bihar wetlands may be the only place in the world where makhana is grown on a commercial basis
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For the swish of a snow leopard's tail...
A commitment to excellence and breathtaking photography characterise the two recent films on Ladakh made by Naresh and Rajesh Bedi
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MONEYMAKERS
AQUA IS GOLD: Controversial it may be, but aquaculture still holds promise for many an entrepreneur. So much so that the State Bank of India (SBI), the country's leading bank, has
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Reading the future in the past
Geological records of how climate responded to changes in the atmosphere in the past enables scientists to model future climate behaviour in response to current atmospheric changes